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S. W. MANSFIELD. COMBINED HEATING, 000mm AND DRYING APPARATUS.

No; 243,929. Patented Jnly 5, 1881.

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s. W. MANSFIELD; COMBINED HEATING, COOKING AND DRYING APPARATUS.

No. 243,929. Patented July 5, 1881.

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SAMUEL IV. MANSFIELD, OF ST. LOUIS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO OLIVER G. KINLEY, OF MOBERLY, MISSOURI.

COMBINED HEATING, COOKING, ANDY DRYING APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 243,929, dated July 5, 1881.

Application filed April 6, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Beit known that I, SAMUEL W. MANSFIELD, of St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Combined Heating, Cooking, and Drying Apparatus, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

1o My improvement relates to'a device for heating the air of a room, for cooking food, and for drying fruit, grain, vegetables, and clothing; and the purpose and object of myinvention is to secure more convenience and cleanliness in I 5 cooking and drying, and a more complete distribution of the heated airin the room, the same being in the nature of an ornamental piece of cabinet -furniture, preferably rectangular in shape and constructed of finished wood lined with tin or other sheet metal, or I may make the case or cabinet of sheet or cast iron.

My improvement consists in the construction and arrangement of parts, as hereinafter set forth and claimed.

2 In the drawings, Figure l is a perspective view of my improvement, showing one of the cabinet-doors standing open. Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal section. Fig. 3 is a vertical section at line :10 00, Fig. 4. Fig. 4 is a horizontalsection on line or m, Fig. 2; and Fig. 5 is a similar view on line :0 m same-figure.

A is the case or cabinet, both sides of which are provided with doors B, preferably double. The sides being duplicates, either may be used 3 5 as front. The ends of the cabinets and the upper parts of the doors B are provided with glass windows, as shown, for the admission of light. Under the windows, in the ends of the cabinet, inside, is a small metal shelf, 0, which 40 is arranged to be removed when not in use,

thus giving more space for drying fruit or clothing. This shelf 0 is for supporting cookingvessels, &c., thus keeping victuals warm until required for the table. The upper part of the 5 cabinet is arranged, as shown at E, to receive bars and trays for drying clothing or fruit, grain, vegetables, 850. F is an opening in the top of the cabinet, through which the heated air escapes into the room, warming the apartment.

At one end of the cabinet is located a castiron fire-box, G, and at the other end, and connected with the fire-box, is a cast-iron oven, H. w The products of combustion pass out from the fire-box through the flue I between the top of the oven and the cooking-surface Jand out into the smoke-pipe K, when the damper L, which is of common construction, is open; or the products of combustion may, by closing the damper L, be made to pass down through the flues M, located at the back of the oven, between it and the outer case,A, thence under the oven through fines N, and thence back through central return-flue O to the smokepipe K, thus heating the oven for the purpose of roasting or cooking.

The fire-box G is provided with a front or face-plate, G, to which two doors, 9 and 10, are hinged, the upper one, g, of which opens into the fire-box G, and the lower one, 19, into the ash-pit P, below. The ash-pit 1? contains aremovable ash-pan, P, for receiving the ashes, cinders, &c., as they drop from the fire-box G. One-half or thereabout of the bottom of the firebox is aremovable grate, g, the otherhalflg be- 7 5 ing asolid bed-plate. The sides 9 of the fire-box G incline outward toward the top. Thus the fire-box is considerably wider at the top than at the bottom. This form of firebox has important advantages, as it gives a large amount of heating-surface above, and yet concentrates and delivers the ashes and ciuders into the ash-pan beneath, from where they can conveniently be removed.

The inside of the oven H has two compartments, formed by means of the removable horizontal shelf or grate H. The oven has door or doors H hinged upon each side, so that when the cabinet is turned or changed it does not interfere with the free access to the oven.

Q is an opening in the outer wall or case, A, which allows access to the flues 0 N beneath the oven H, for the removal of accumulated dirt, soot, or ashes. The opening Q is closed 'by means of a small door, q. 5

Just above the fire-box and oven, and forming the top of the former, is detachably fastened the cooking plate or surface J, which is supplied with pot-holes j for the reception of cooking vessels. 10o

R is the metal bottom of the ash-pit, extending beneath the bottom of the oven and forming the bottom of the cabinet. In the bottom B are openings 1" on each side of the ash-pit for the admission of air to be heated.

On each side of the ash-pit, fire-box, and oven is a single metal shield, S, whose upper edges connect with the cooking-surface J, with the metal bottom R, and the ends of the metallined case A, thus closing in the fire-box, ashpit, and oven, except the oven-doors, openings being made in the shields S to allow the opening and closing of said doors.

The air to be heated enters through openings r and passes up through fines T 011 each side of the ash-pit and fire-box between them and the metal shield S, and passes out through openings at in the shield, near the cooking-surface J, thence up through the cabinet and out through opening F in the top of the cabinet into the room in which the device is located. There are also openings 1* (see Fig. 4) in the metal bottom R between the oven and the outer wall, A, of the cabinet, which furnish a greater supply of air to be heated and secure a more rapid circulation of the heated air in the room.

The cookin g.sur1"ace J is covered with a metalshield, U, when the apparatus is to be used for drying fruit or clothing, thus protecting them from the direct radiated heat.

Both sides of the cabinet being nicely finished and provided with doors, it may be turned or changed from one room to another, using either side as front, and thereby adapting it 10 any room regardless of the position of the 5 ne. n

The tollowing is what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

The combination of the oven H, fire-box G, ash-pitP, shields S, with openings t, and cook- 40 ing-surface J, the whole forming flues I, M, N,

O, and T, and being inclosed within a metallined or metal case or cabinet A with duplicate sides, as set forth, and provided with openings 1'1" and F, substantially as and for 5 the purpose set forth.

SAMUEL W. MANSFIELD.

.Vitnesses:

SAML. KNIGHT, GEo. H. KNIGHT. 

